Phone Won't Turn On

[Smowball]

I've charged and wiped all my info from my spare mobile phone to send to son. I've taken my sim out but as soon as I do that it won't turn on. Put my sim back in and it turns on. Makes no sense to me- it should turn on even without a sim in it - any thoughts?

[Old_Geezer]

Makes little sense to me also. Does it turn on with your son's SIM in it ? Or any other SIM ?

[Smowball]

I haven't posted it to him yet and I don't have another sim to test it. How weird!

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe it doesn't want to leave.

[fender62]

this may help read whole thread
http://www.droidforums.net/threads/use-without-a-sim-card.223831/

[Old_Geezer]

In may be too early in the morning for me to take that in, but that seems a very techie explanation; and seems to suggest that Verizon phones have a design flaw. Mobiles are supposed to be active without a SIM to make emergency calls only, anyway.

Now you've put your SIM back in to reset the handset, does it work without the SIM now ?

[Smowball]

Yes it now works without the sim. Not quite sure why it didn't before but I just reset it back to factory settings